The last time I updated was back in July and a lot has happened since! There was more bear lake, fairs, derby, parades, park days, my birthday, and so much more fun in the sun! I would love to put all of those pictures up but that would make this post extremely long! Let's just say the girls loved every little bit of it and so did I!
We will start with our annual Pentz family reunion which was, as always, so much fun!
Talent Show! We started the talent show last year and I am so glad we did. This year was just as fun! My sisters and I performed a dance to a mashup of songs and then at the very end, when Thriller came on, my mom came in from the crowd and joined us for the dance. I think everyone was shocked! It was so much fun! I didn't get any pictures of that, which I am sure my sisters and mom are just fine with, but trust me, It was so much fun!
The girls dancing to Camryn's beautiful voice
I realized when I got home that I didn't get many pictures, I was pretty bummed about it, it's just hard to always have a camera or a phone on you when you are swimming and running around playing nerf gun war!
It was another great reunion for the books!
I took some pictures of the girls right around when school was starting. I loved seeing all of the pictures of cute little kids going to school and I just wanted to take some of my cuties!
I had to share this picture of one of my visiting teachers. I love her so much and so do my girls! She is such a wonderful person and I am so blessed to have met her. Kanzis and Kamzlin will treasure this picture forever, I just know it.
Playing cars with daddy
Fun at Grandma and Grandpas...
We visited Kaizen's headstone on the anniversary of his passing. I had planned to have a picnic and spend an hour or so there but the weather had different plans, so we stayed for a little while, told him what we were up to, took some pictures and gave him a kiss. I miss him so much but it helps when my girls want to go see him, and talk to him. The other day, Kanzis was listing her family members and Kaizen wasn't forgotten. It brings tears to my eyes that she includes him, and I'm not sure she will ever know how much it means to me. How much it helps me.
With Josh and I in Young Men's and Young Women's, we had the opportunity to go with the youth to the Star Valley Temple open house. It was such a wonderful time and I look forward to any time we are able to take the girls into one of The Lord's Holy Temples. This temple, I was especially thankful to take them in because someday, we plan to move to the beautiful Star Valley and we will be the closest we have ever been to a Temple.
September, we had a birthday party for Kanzis. When we went to one of the fairs, she saw a barbie cake with a beautiful dress, she lit up and asked for one for her birthday so I made her one. She loved it!
Her hair is still growing, slow, but growing and I just love trying new things with it...
Dentist time, she did awesome...
Halloween 2016...
The winners of the costume contest!
Instead of trick or treating around town with a bunch of little kids, my sister-in-law, Josh's brother and I took the kids to a trunk or treat at one of the local church's! I have to say, that is the way to go when you have little kids. No in and out of the car a million times, and they still got a bucket full of candy! They had so much fun!
Making banana bread...
She is such a good helper! She helps with laundry and she will even grab her little broom and help me when she sees me sweeping.
We took Kanzis to Disney on Ice a little bit ago. I was so excited for her! We had awesome seats, 3rd row from the ice! She was able to see everything and my heart felt so full watching her excitement.
Videoing and taking pictures of deer...
He really enjoys doing this stuff, he could do it for hours. I enjoy it when he lets me come with him lol! It's not always easy looking for deer when you have squirmy, not very quiet kids with you. :)
We had our Young Women's night of Excellence in November. This is when the Young Women come and share what they have been working on for the year and what they have accomplished. I loved seeing all of their talents and am truly grateful to be in this program!
We have some awesome Young Women leaders with wonderful talents in our Ward and I loved being able to help decorate for this wonderful night.
If you saw on my Instagram/Facebook, you saw that after 9 years of marriage we finally were able to get a new dining room table due to a gift card from my mom from last Christmas and an awesome black friday sale! We are in love and I feel so grown up now!
This is what we were living with, my craft table, it worked for us but not when you had people over.
So much better! We have a leaf that came with it that will extend it to seat 6 people plus our bar will seat 4. We are ready to have big family dinners!
The original 4 has grown to 7...
So you probably saw on my Instagram/Facebook my announcement of baby #4, if not here you go...
I took these next ones right close to when we found out, which was a little before I was 4 weeks along...
There is always a bunch of different ways to announce so I had to share these. :)
We are so excited! I am very thankful for every pregnancy and as always, I am scared of what could happen, but my husband and my family try to reassure me that everything is ok. It's hard but I really do try to enjoy the pregnancy without a lot of worry. My favorite part is feeling him/her move in there.
We are able to find out the gender this week at my next appointment but we are waiting to have our ultrasound in January and I think I have decided to find out this time. It was fun with the last two, really, and I never once had the urge to find out, but I just feel like finding out this time. Which Josh and our families are pretty happy about! So be ready for an announcement in January! :)
Since I found out I was pregnant when I was a little before 4 weeks along, I feel like this pregnancy has gone by so slow! But, I have been blessed with little symptoms. The only thing I have had was extreme fatigue in my 1st trimester, which was pretty tough with two toddlers running around. But I feel like my energy has come back a little and I am holding on to that! I was doing a workout program before I got pregnant and a little bit during the first couple of weeks but that fatigue just took everything out of me. I have recently started working out again, not as intensely as I was, but at least something, and I feel great! Pregnancy is not very good to me in the sense that I tend to gain a lot of weight, but I am hoping with a little exercise, it won't be too bad.
We started taking weekly pictures when I was 10 weeks along. I missed the 13th week and 18th week and have not took my 19 week one yet! I better get on that! I am 19 weeks and 1 day today. Almost half way there!
We take the pictures on Sunday before we go to church. Some weeks are a bit crazy and we have no time to take them but I love having these pictures to look back on. I have been comparing to past pregnancy pictures which is so much fun! I sure love these little beauties!
Well I think that catches us up for now! I am so excited for Christmas! We have a Christmas Eve party coming up with Josh's family and I look forward to it every year! Even more so now that I have kids that make it more enjoyable! If I don't post again before Christmas, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Be safe!
